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The proliferation of edge devices and the rapid growth of IoT data have called forth the edge computing paradigm. Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a promising computing paradigm to realize edge computing. This paper explores the feasibility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Runyu Jin , Qirui Yang , Ming Zhao

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) has become an increasingly popular way for users to deploy their applications without the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. However, existing FaaS platforms rely on remote storage to maintain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Francisco Romero , Gohar Irfan Chaudhry , Íñigo Goiri , Pragna Gopa , Paul Batum , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Rodrigo Fonseca , Christos Kozyrakis , Ricardo Bianchini

Reliable and trustworthy evaluation of algorithms is a challenging process. Firstly, each algorithm has its strengths and weaknesses, and the selection of test instances can significantly influence the assessment process. Secondly, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Szymon Wasik , Maciej Antczak , Jan Badura , Artur Laskowski

Most cloud platforms have a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering that enables users to easily write highly scalable applications. To better understand how the platform's architecture impacts its performance, we present a research-focused…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

Cloud computing, despite its inherent advantages (e.g., resource efficiency) still faces several challenges. the wide are network used to connect the cloud to end-users could cause high latency, which may not be tolerable for some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Carla Mouradian , Fereshteh Ebrahimnezhad , Yassine Jebbar , Jasmeen Kaur Ahluwalia , Seyedeh Negar Afrasiabi , Roch H. Glitho , Ashok Moghe

Current Serverless abstractions (e.g., FaaS) poorly support non-functional requirements (e.g., QoS and constraints), are provider-dependent, and are incompatible with other cloud abstractions (e.g., databases). As a result, application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Hai Duc Nguyen , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Cloud computing focuses on delivery of reliable, secure, fault-tolerant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructures for hosting Internet-based application services. These applications have different composition, configuration, and deployment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-03-17 Rodrigo N. Calheiros , Rajiv Ranjan , Cesar A. F. De Rose , Rajkumar Buyya

Current automation approaches in the Industry 4.0 have generated increased interest in the utilization of Integration Platforms as a Service (iPaaS) cloud architectures in order to unify and synchronize several systems, applications, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Rafael Cestari , Sebastien Ducos , Ernesto Exposito

In a world, where complexity increases on a daily basis the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) cloud model seams to take countermeasures. In comparison to other cloud models, the fast evolving FaaS increasingly abstracts the underlying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Roland Pellegrini , Igor Ivkic , Markus Tauber

The Dynamic Scalability of resources, a problem in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has been the hotspot for research and industry communities. The heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the Cloud workloads depends on the Quality of Service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Sukhpal Singh , Inderveer Chana

The pay-as-you-go model supported by existing cloud infrastructure providers is appealing to most application service providers to deliver their applications in the cloud. Within this context, elasticity of applications has become one of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Rui Han

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is a type of software service delivery model which encompasses a broad range of business opportunities and challenges. Users and service providers are reluctant to integrate their business into SaaS due to its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Pushpinder Kaur Chouhan , Feng Yao , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

Cloud-native applications are intentionally designed for the cloud in order to leverage cloud platform features like horizontal scaling and elasticity - benefits coming along with cloud platforms. In addition to classical (and very often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Peter-Christian Quint , Nane Kratzke

Serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms provide applications with resources that are highly elastic, quick to instantiate, accounted at fine granularity, and without the need for explicit runtime resource orchestration. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Michael Wawrzoniak , Rodrigo Bruno , Ana Klimovic , Gustavo Alonso

FaaS (Function as a Service) allows developers to upload and execute code in the cloud without managing servers. FaaS offerings from leading public cloud providers are based on system microVM or application container technologies such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ju Long , Hung-Ying Tai , Shen-Ta Hsieh , Michael Juntao Yuan

This paper describes two tools that aim to support decision making during the migration of IT systems to the cloud. The first is a modeling tool that produces cost estimates of using public IaaS clouds. The tool enables IT architects to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ali Khajeh-Hosseini , Ian Sommerville , Jurgen Bogaerts , Pradeep Teregowda

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is one of the most promising directions for the future of cloud services, and serverless functions have immediately become a new middleware for building scalable and cost-efficient microservices and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Marcin Copik , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Maciej Besta , Michal Podstawski , Torsten Hoefler

Cloud Computing is an Internet based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information, are provided to computers and devices on demand, like the electricity grid. Currently, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Ramkumar Lakshminarayanan , Rajasekar Ramalingam

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a form of cloud computing that relieves the user from the concern of hardware, software installation and management. It is an emerging business model that delivers software applications to the users through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-15 R. Swaminathan , K. Karnavel

Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, are composed from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Varad Kulkarni , Nikhil Reddy , Tuhin Khare , Abhinandan S. Prasad , Chitra Babu , Yogesh Simmhan